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THE CONDOR 
An Illustrated Magazine of Western 
Ornithology 
Published Bi-monthly by the Cooper Ornithologi- 
cal Club of California 
WALTER K. FISHER, Editor, Palo Alto 
JOSEPH GRINNELL, Business Manager and 
Associate Editor, Pasadena 
R. E. SNODGRASS, WILLIAM L. FINLEY, 
Associate Editors 
Palo Alto, California: PublisbedSe.pt. 19, 1905 
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NOTES AND NEWS 
An expedition of more than ordinary interest 
was sent by the California Academy of Sciences, 
during the summer, to the Galapagos Islands, 
to be gone nineteen months. The expedition 
was organized through the indefatigable efforts 
of the Director of the Museum, Mr. Leverett 
Mills Loomis, who spared neither time nor 
pains to bring the undertaking to a successful 
start. The personnel includes R. H. Beck, 
Chief, E. W. Gifford and j. S. Hunter, birds 
and mammals, A. W. Stewart, plants, J. R. 
Slevin and Ernest King, reptiles, F. X. Wil- 
liams, beetles and other insects, and W. H. 
Ochsner, living and fossil shells. The Academy 
purchased a two-masted schooner-yacht from 
the Navy Department. This vessel is 85 feet 
'long, 23^5 feet broad and has a gross tonnage 
of 114. The equipment includes practically 
everything that such an expedition can possibly 
need. The itinerary of the trip is as follows: 
left San Francisco, June 28, via Ensenada (2 
days); San Benitos (2 days), Natividad (one half 
day), Cerros (1 day), San Benedicte (2 days), 
Socorro (1 day), Cocos (1 week) or Clipperton 
(2 days); arrive at Galapagos about August 15; 
thirteen months, August 15, 1905 to September 
15, 1906 to be spent at Galapagos, with a trip to 
Cocos if it has not been previously visited; 
leave Galapagos September 15, 1906, via Clar- 
ion, and arrive at San Francisco, December 1, 
1906. The members will make especial efforts 
to secure a very complete collection of reptiles 
and birds, while their long stay in the islands 
will enable them to gather much biological 
data of importance, as well as data concerning 
temperature and rainfall, and the effects of 
these on distribution. This expedition will 
undoubtedly prove the most important which 
has yet visited this, one might say, classic 
region. 
The editor had the pleasure of being a mem- 
ber of Camp Agassiz during the past summer. 
This camp, now well known to all lovers of the 
mountains, is perhaps unique among the host 
of camps which are springing up in response to 
a popular need. It is without doubt situated in 
the most attractive portion of the Sierra 
Nevada, and in a region where more interest- 
ing peaks and lakes are easily accessible than 
elsewhere throughout the whole length of this 
remarkable chain. The single view from Mt. 
Tallac easily bears favorable comparison with 
the best that the Alps can offer. And all this 
is right at our door, as it were, but eighteen 
hours from San Francisco. We are glad to 
state that the camp enjoyed the most prosper- 
ous summer since its foundation, and will now 
be open for guests the entire year. During 
midwinter the camp is reached by travelling 
over the snow on skees from Tallac where the 
adventurous are landed by boat three times a 
week. This will afford an unexcelled opportun- 
ity to view the wildest portion of the Sierra 
during the great silence of winter — an oppor- 
tunity which has heretofore been denied all but 
the most venturesome, for the simple reason 
that resorts are closed during the winter months. 
The editor hopes to make (he acquaintance of 
the winter birds during the Christmas holidays. 
We take pleasure in acknowledging the court- 
esy of The Pacific Monthly of Portland, Ore- 
gon, for the loan of three cuts, used in Mr. 
Finley's article on “Among the Sea Birds off 
the Oregon Coast.” The Pacific Monthly is 
rapidly forging to the front of all western 
magazines, and is coming to be the ac- 
knowledged exponent of western literature, as 
well as a magazine of unusual mechanical ex- 
cellance. We congratulate the publishers on 
the success attending their vigorous efforts to 
produce a magazine of merit. 
RESOLUTIONS 
Whereas, it has pleased an All-Wise Provi- 
dence to take from us, to a higher life, an 
Honorary Member of the Cooper Ornithologi- 
cal Club, Mr. Walter E. Bryant of Santa Rosa, 
thereby closing the earthly career of one who 
was ever close and dear to us in a fraternal 
sense, while commanding our admiration and 
respect for his scholarly and scientific attain- 
ments, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That in the death of Walter E. 
Bryant this Club has sustained a loss which 
years only can fully measure, and one that is 
personal and sincere to all who knew him; and 
be it further 
Resolved, That in the passing of Mr. Bryant 
we deplore the loss to Pacific Coast Ornithology 
of one of its most ardent students, a thorough 
Ornitliolgist, whose work and papers are a 
monument to his memory; one who was ever 
helpful to a friend or beginner; an enthusiastic 
collector, a loyal friend, and one of whom it 
might be said that he was in every sense a 
man, and it is finally 
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, a 
feeble though heart-felt tribute to his memory, 
be sent to his bereaved family, and a copy 
spread upon the minutes and published in the 
official organ of the Cooper Ornithological 
Club. 
